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This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an
account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most
important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of
Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an
experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the
crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special
economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the
hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China
studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore
how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a
dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in
China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal
institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public
health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more.
Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look
at one of the world's most dynamic metropolises, this collective
history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and
possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.
What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes
abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains?
In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East
Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places
from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape
the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects
of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a
rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with
difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the
everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums
dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the
"people's palace" that captured the national imagination through
its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving
from the local, the intimate, and the small to the national, the
impersonal, and the large, this book's interpenetrating chapters
show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in
the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage
point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical
discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism
and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.
What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes
abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains?
In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East
Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places
from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape
the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects
of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a
rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with
difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the
everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums
dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the
"people's palace" that captured the national imagination through
its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving
from the local, the intimate, and small to the national, the
impersonal, and large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show
the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the
production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on
the workings of the everyday in situations of radical
discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism
and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.
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